Daily Inspiration

No one saves us but ourselves.

No one can and no one may.

We ourselves must walk the path.

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 24 Apr 2014

Earnestness is the path of immortality (Nirvana), thoughtlessness the path of death.

Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are thoughtless are as if dead already. 

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 24 Jun 2014

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

- Henry David Thoreau

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 25 Apr 2014

As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, 

passion will break through an in reflecting mind.

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 25 Jun 2014

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 26 Jun 2014

(The sage) never strives himself for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

- Lao Tzu

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 26/27 Apr 2014

Study the past if you would define the future.

- Confucius

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 27 Jun 2014

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 28 Apr 2014

Nobody can hurt me without my permission,

- Mahatma Gandhi

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 28/29 Jun 2014

Man is the product of his thoughts.

What he thinks, he becomes.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 29 Apr 2014

Meditation brings wisdom;

lack of meditation leaves ignorance.

Know well what leads you forward

and what holds you back, and

choose the path that leads to wisdom.

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 30 Apr 2014

Beauty is not caused. It is.

- Emily Dickinson

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 30 Jun 2014

Reward of an act is to have done it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 1 May 2014

The thought manifests as the word.

The word manifests as the deed.

The deed develops into habit.

And the habit hardens into character.

So watch the thought and its ways with care.

And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

- Buddha

Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 1 Jul 2014